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John Carlin leaves Justice:  We give him the good news and the bad news.

Episode 134 features John Carlin’s swan song as assistant attorney general for national security.  We review the highs and lows of his tenure from a cybersecurity point of view and then look to the future, including how the US should respond…

A record-setting insecurity week.

Our interview in episode 131 is with Matt Cutts and Lisa Wiswell from the Pentagon’s Defense Digital Service.  Matt joined the Digital Service from Google where he authored their SafeSearch content filter.  Lisa is a bureaucracy hacker with the Defense Digital Service and previously spent years working on cyber-warfare in DOD’s…

Ironman meets the Antideficiency Act

In episode 129, Alan Cohn and I dive deep on the Government Oversight committee’s predictably depressing and unpredictably entertaining report on the OPM hack. Cheeky Chinese hackers register their control sites to superhero alter egos.  And poor, patriotic Cytech finds an intruder during a sales demo, rushes to…

The podcast is back with a bang from hiatus. Our guest, Scott DePasquale, is the CEO of Utilidata, an electric utility IoT and cybersecurity company. Scott talks about his contribution to the Internet Security Alliance’s upcoming book, The Cyber Security Social Contract.

Episode 128 also brings you a news roundup from the most…

Episode 126 – The podcast goes to the conventions

If Vladimir Putin can do it, so can we. This week the podcast dives deep into the US presidential campaign.

I of course talk with Maury Shenk about evidence that the Russians are behind “Guccifer 2.0” and the DNC data leak – aided by…

Want to see cyber attribution and deterrence in action? In August, a hacker pulled the names of US military personnel and others out of a corporate network and passed them to ISIL. British jihadist Junaid Hussain exulted when ISIL released the names. “They have us on their ‘hit list,’ and we have them on ours too…,” he tweeted. On the whole, I’d rather be on theirs. Two weeks after his tweet, Hussain was killed in a US airstrike, and two months after that, the hacker was arrested in Malaysia (subscription required) on a US warrant.

We explore that story and more with Gen. Michael Hayden, the only person to serve as both Director of the National Security Agency and of the Central Intelligence Agency. Gen. Hayden explains why he differs with FBI director Comey on encryption and with the European Court of Justice on whether the US sufficiently respects privacy rights, along with other topics.

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Continue Reading Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Gen. Michael Hayden

Over the past few years, the US government has invested heavily in trying to create international norms for cyberspace. We’ve endlessly cajoled other nations to agree on broad principles about internet freedom and how the law of war applies to cyberconflicts. Progress has been slow, especially with countries that might actually face us in a…

Bonus Episode 78:  Dmitri Alperovitch, Harvey Rishikof, Stewart Baker, and Melanie Teplinsky debate whether the United States should start doing commercial espionage

I know, I know, we promised that the Cyberlaw Podcast would go on hiatus for the month of August.  But we also hinted that there might be a bonus episode. …

Our guest for episode 77 is Bruce Andrews, the deputy secretary of the Commerce Department. Alan Cohn and I pepper Bruce with questions about export controls on cybersecurity technology, stopping commercial cyberespionage, the future of the NIST cybersecurity framework, and how we can get on future cybersecurity trade missions, among other things.

In the…